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<h2 id="supported-configurations">Supported Configurations</h2>
<p>The following configurations are supported.</p>
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<tr valign="top" class="odd"><td >Windows 10</td><td ><code>x86</code> and <code>x86_64</code></td><td ><b>MSVC 2017</b>, <b>MSVC 2015</b>, <b><a href="https://mingw-w64.org/">MinGW</a> 7.3</b></td><td ></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="even"><td >Windows 8.1</td><td ><code>x86</code> and <code>x86_64</code></td><td >MSVC 2017, MSVC 2015, <a href="https://mingw-w64.org/">MinGW</a> 7.3</td><td ></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="odd"><td >Windows 7</td><td ><code>x86</code> and <code>x86_64</code></td><td >MSVC 2017, MSVC 2015, <b><a href="https://mingw-w64.org/">MinGW</a> 7.3</b></td><td ><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win32/Personal%20Builds/mingw-builds/7.3.0/threads-posix/dwarf/i686-7.3.0-release-posix-dwarf-rt_v5-rev0.7z/download">MinGW-builds GCC 7.3&#x2e;0 (x86)</a></td></tr>
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